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Old 01-11-2020, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Air&Road View Post
Not to be rude Barry, but you’re a little late. I retired three years ago from a career mostly in automation and controls. I’ve seen tons of different processes successfully automated for years. The peak was in the eighties through the 2000’s. The bad news is that many low paying jobs were lost. The good news was that many higher paying jobs developing and maintaining the systems were gained.



It was also was a great ride that netted me a comfortable retirement.
There is still huge huge movement in that field, mostly with the more recent push of cloud development and IoT. I imagine that is a shift from your experience towards more software and machine learning development. Its fascinating stuff - I have been meaning to learn a bit about IoT development but haven't really had the time lately.
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